punition

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Send then Thy snowy white dove peace-bringing, Unto Thy faithful Thy token winging, Olive-branch fair of Thy summer's fruition After the deluge of sin's punition!

From Poems and Songs by Palmer, Arthur Hubbell

No such cruel punition as that of forcing a dull pupil to learn an additional task, or of sentencing him to strain his eyes copying four or five hundred lines, is ever dreamed of.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Hearn, Lafcadio

"La plus grande punition infligée à l'homme, c'est faire souffrir ce qu'il aime, en voulant frapper ce qu'il hait."

From Roden's Corner by Merriman, Henry Seton

"Peut-être fallait-il que la punition des imprudens et des faibles fut confiée à la malignité, car la pure vertu n'eût jamais été assez cruelle."

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)